Alois Bronstein

Alois Bronstein (23 April 1828-4 February 1901) was a Radical Workers' Party of Prussia politician and journalist under Prussia and the German Empire. Bronstein was an anarchist activist since he was studying horticulture at the University of Berlin, and he wrote for the party's newspaper, Arbeiter. He would be forced into exile in Denmark for his critique of the Franco-Prussian War, and he died there in 1901.

Biography
Alois Bronstein was born in Stendal, Prussia on 23 April 1828, the son of a lay Protestant preacher and the daughter of a Prussian Army officer. Bronstein spent his formative years in Berlin, where his family moved in 1833. Bronstein studied horticulture at the University of Berlin, where he joined a radical student movement. Bronstein joined the Radical Workers' Party of Prussia in 1848, and he took part in workers' protests during the Spring of Nations. In 1852, he became an editor of Arbeiter, the newspaper of the party, and his publications helped in giving the party more popularity. In 1864, he was elected to the upper house of Prussia's parliament, and he was one of the representatives of the party's 1.9% minority in parliament. Bronstein was a member of the left wing of the party, and he opposed Prussia's war with France in 1870, as he supported French republicanism; Bronstein also believed that war was detrimental to the workforce, as many of them were mobilized into the army and lost at war. Bronstein wrote Critique of the War With France in 1871, and this publication was censored by the government due to its anti-conservative message. Bronstein went into exile in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he died in 1901 at the age of 72.